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Security personnel inspect a police station destroyed by multiple explosions, in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, on January 21, 2012. Nigeria is to investigate its army's conduct after clashes between troops and Islamist fighters in the northeast killed nearly 200 people, the single deadliest event since the insurgency began.
Nigeria to probe army after battle with Islamists
AFP 23 Apr 2013
Nigeria is to investigate its army's conduct after clashes between troops and Islamist fighters in the northeast...
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Nigerian passenger allegedly commits suicide at Cairo airport
Al-Masry Al-Youm 22 Mar 2013
A Nigerian passenger died after he fell from the top of the arrival hall at Cairo International Airport Thursday...
Nigerian villagers sue Shell in landmark pollution case
Reuters 12 Oct 2012
Four Nigerian villagers took Royal Dutch Shell to court on Thursday in a landmark pollution case that campaigners said...
Muslim pilgrims pray during Friday prayers at the Grand Mosque at the Saudi holy city of Mecca, November 3, 2011. Over 2 million Muslims from around the world are expected to perform the Hajj, which this year peaks in the first week of November.
Saudi denies entry to some 1,000 Nigerian women for Hajj
AFP 26 Sep 2012
AFP — Saudi Arabia has denied entry to some 1,000 Nigerian woman seeking to visit for Hajj because they were not...
File photo of the gate leading to northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri. Global rights watchdog Human Rights Watch Wednesday condemned as "reprehensible" attacks by suspected members of Boko Haram on schools in and around restive Maiduguri city, hotbed of the Islamist sect in northern Nigeria. (AFP Photo/Aminu Abubakar)
Nigeria in talks with Islamists via 'back channels'
Reuters 27 Aug 2012
ABUJA ­— Nigeria's government is reaching out to radical Islamist sect Boko Haram, talking with some of...
Police on alert after suicide bombings in Kano, Nigeria, in January 2012. More than 150 people were killed the attacks. Picture: AP
Gunmen kill three in Nigeria mosque attack
Reuters 08 Aug 2012
ABUJA — Gunmen killed three people in an attack on a mosque in the Nigerian town of Okene on Tuesday, a day after...
File photo of the gate leading to northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri. Global rights watchdog Human Rights Watch Wednesday condemned as "reprehensible" attacks by suspected members of Boko Haram on schools in and around restive Maiduguri city, hotbed of the Islamist sect in northern Nigeria. (AFP Photo/Aminu Abubakar)
Army: Attackers 'slaughter' nine workers in northern Nigeria
AFP 02 Jul 2012
Attackers killed nine Nigerian construction workers early Monday in the restive northeastern city of Maiduguri, the...
People stand around the crashed Dana Airline plane in Lagos (AFP, Emmanuel Arewa)
Nigeria mourns after Lagos plane crash kills 153
AFP 04 Jun 2012
LAGOS — Nigeria began three days of mourning on Monday after a plane carrying 153 people plunged into a...
Police on alert after suicide bombings in Kano, Nigeria, in January 2012. More than 150 people were killed the attacks. Picture: AP
Nigeria university struck by gunfire, explosions
AP 29 Apr 2012
KANO, Nigeria — Several explosions struck a university campus Sunday morning in northern Nigeria near a theater...
Nigeria opens secret prison for sect
AP 19 Apr 2012
ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria is opening a secret detention center to hold and interrogate suspected high-level...